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The UN General Assembly assembles all members of the organization in an open forum with equal voting power. It was the UNGA that adopted the initial UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, thereafter playing a constructive role in the promotion and adoption of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Multiple landmark UN Security Council resolutions and every American president since have backed the two-state solution.
Saudi Arabia’s Beirut peace initiative of 2002 comprehensively spelled out the opportunities and responsibilities of all parties in achieving regional peace, stability and prosperity in the context of a two-state solution. This September, nations must come together at the UNGA to define clear steps to end the war and massacre in Gaza, as well as toward achieving a two-state solution.
At the close of the Second World War, Germany accepted responsibility for its crimes and the attendant financial and moral reparations owed to the families of victims, particularly the victims of the Holocaust and the Jewish people in general. Israel has now committed multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the crime of genocide. It is currently implementing this through indiscriminate killing, starvation and the forced removal of Palestinians, “making life so miserable for them that they will leave the area entirely,” in the words of Thomas Friedman.
